My Biggest Praying in Tongues Testimony of 2025

At the start of 2025, I had a big problem. I wanted to know which direction to take in my ministry.

I was comfortably serving God, and I enjoyed doing it every single day. I had no complaints whatsoever.

However, there comes a time when you need growth. Even if you have the best of lives out there, you will still need growth after some time. That’s human nature. Without growth, you start feeling unfulfilled.

That is exactly what I was facing at the start of 2025. I had been serving God for three years with this ministry, but I was increasingly feeling directionless.

I had many choices, but I knew my human limits could not allow me to pursue all of them.

“Maybe I should focus on deliverance. I’ve cast an evil spirit out of someone before.” I thought to myself.

“But I’m more suited to teach people the word. I did that for five good years.” I reasoned out.

“Augustine, why are you even thinking? You are very efficient in leading prayers. Isn’t that what you desired to do for the longest time?”

I battled with these thoughts every single day.

Somewhere along the way, I decided to ask some people close to me what they thought would be the best path for me.

“Think about traveling abroad to pursue further studies.” Someone suggested.

“Start a church.” Another one suggested.

The suggestions I got were not helping the situation in any way. If anything, they only made my situation worse.

Deep down, I wanted to pray to God for direction, but for some reason, I didn’t.

I wanted to exhaust my options so that when I go to God, I do so with one mind.

For every suggestion I got, I had an excuse.

The way out

One day, my wife noticed I was not in the best of moods and asked me why I was not cheerful. I told her the dilemma I was in.

“But you are a man of God, you know what to do.” She told me.

Her statement wasn’t a surprise to me. I just didn’t have the motivation to seek God for direction.

I wanted to give an excuse, but I didn’t have any. I found the whole situation very draining.

For several weeks, I dodged seeking God for direction.

“If God has called me to serve Him, He should give me direction. Why do I have to keep asking for direction when He knows I need it? Come on!” I thought to myself.

It was the typical human stubbornness making me refuse to do what I knew I must do.

As you would expect, the resistance was never going to last forever.

By mid-2025, I couldn’t take it anymore.  

I had resisted seeking God for six good months. Every scheme I had come up with to fix the problem had backfired.

Eventually, I decided to pray for direction. I mostly just prayed in tongues.

Despite deciding to pray for direction, I was very angry within. I was angry that God would not tell me what to do until I asked. I mean, why!!?

“Lord, I encourage people to pray, but I have no motivation to pray myself. If you will not give me a reason to pray, well, I’ll have no reason to pray, and will you blame me for that?” I asked God.

Very brazen, I know. But that was exactly what was in my heart. He is God; that wouldn’t be the first time He would have to deal with a hard-headed human being.

I expected Him to come up with an ingenious way of dealing with it. Sure enough, He proved His wisdom.

Shortly after I made that prayer, someone asked me if I had a group she could join for live prayer. She was not the first person to ask me about it.

Over the first six months of the year, several people enquired if I do live prayers for them to join. I kept telling them I don’t do any live prayers.

When that lady asked if I had a prayer group for her to join, I knew she was sent by God. I turned her away as I had done several other requests before.

However, the matter had bothered me so much. As part of venting out the matter, I confided in my wife, expecting her to side with me as a good wife would do.

Unfortunately for me, God had already infiltrated the heart of my wife.

After telling my wife what was frustrating me, she told me, “You asked God for direction; He has told you what to do. How do you want me to help you?”

Instantly, I realized, anything I would ask my wife to help me with would basically be asking her to help me disobey God.

After taking a deep breath, I told her I would buy a camera and start doing live prayers in a week’s time.

Sure enough, I did as I promised and began conducting live prayer sessions. To this day, the live prayers have been the biggest blessing of 2025.

All the concerns and endless thoughts I had vanished. For that, I bless the Lord.